The College of Life Sciences is delighted to announce that this year’s CLS Innovator of the Year title has been awarded to the Open Microscopy Environment team - Will Moore, Petr Walczysko, Gus Ferguson and Jean-Marie Burel - for their development of the new application, OMERO.figure.

The February 2015 edition of Disease Models and Mechanisms will feature a cover image from Daniel Bandarra’s paper “HIF-1α restricts NF-κB-dependent gene expression to control innate immunity signals.” The work, a collaboration between the Rocha group and Arno Müller of the Division of

Daniel Bandarra (Rocha lab) took the prize for best PhD talk at the Second European NF-kappaB Subunit Workshop, held in Pitlochry this October, for "HIF-1alpha restricts NF-kappaB dependent gene expression to control innate immunity signals".

Congratulations to John Biddlestone, of the Rocha lab, for successfully defending his PhD thesis, “Role of Fam60a in the regulation of HIF-2α and determination of stem cell fate,” on Friday 31st October 2014.

Congratulations to Debbie McIntosh in Julian Blow’s lab for successfully defending her PhD thesis, entitled “An investigation into the regulation of replication factories and dormant origins in human cells,” on Tuesday 14th October 2014.